Yes, this seems bugged for me too. I have to enable CEM in Realism settings and then restart the game for them to appear.

Try looking in the control options and look for the one to map a key to 'glance at gadges' I forgot exactly what its called.. But it gives you a better view at the gadges that on some planes you can see to well.

Wo Wo wait, no aileron? How the heck do you turn the thing? That sounds crazy, turning with just rudder sounds like being the target in a shooting gallery.

No aileron trim...

Wing warping.:grin:

Spitfire has TVC. :cool:

My biggest complaint with the game is that it brutally punishes you right now if you turn off CEM. I'm going to learn it eventually when I have time to figure everything out, but right now with the game-breaking bug where your RPMs in many of the planes are limited with CEM off, you can't freaking play the game.

Right now you basically are forced to learn how to fly with CEM if you want to even try to enjoy the game. This is a gamebreaking bug that I'm really shocked hasn't been fixed yet. You literally can't beat campaign missions where you fly a Spitfire with this bug.

So in regards to the OP, you kind of don't have a choice. Otherwise, you gotta wait until they fix this bug.

This annoyed me too, but to be honest learning the basics of CEM in this game took about an hour and has increased my enjoyment of the game loads. There really is not much to it and it adds to the 'sim' feeling immensely. All the info you need is on this site.
Good luck with it.

CEM all the way. There is no going back to old kiddies IL-2 after new IL-2 CEM.

You wanted a sim, you got a sim. I think it is really a sim in the true sense of the word and we are now slowly discovering how deep it is. If you want to fly a Spit like it really was then this is how you do it. If you just want air quake play WOP.